I circumvented that by setting custom repository directory every time via maven.repo.local
Seems that you can configure your repository in settings.xml to use update policy "always" for releases to make sure that its always downloaded. I cannot comment on how that would work if artifact is already present and download fails though. On Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 16:15 Delany <delany.middle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Maven, > > A project was missing a dependency junit:junit and would fail to build on > Jenkins, where the .m2/repository is removed for each build. > On my machine this dependency happens to be in .m2/repository and the > project would build fine. > > How can I make it not fine? I don't want my projects taking whatever they > need from maven local repository without a <dependency> > > Thanks > Delany >